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Album Reviews, Pride 2022

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Perfume Genius’ ‘Ugly Season’ is laminated, liminal triumph

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Wildly inventive and sumptuous, Ugly Season succeeds as a welcome entrant into Hadreas’ discography.
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Concerts

Friday, April 1, 2022
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Perfume Genius taps fibrous, phantasmagoric portal at The Fillmore

Onstage, Hadreas’ discography blooms. At times, what audiences experienced was more akin to performance art than a concert.
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Concerts

Thursday, July 1, 2021
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Perfume Genius returns to live performance with sublime concert at Big Sur’s Henry Miller Library

Sitting on the grass in front of the library, fragments of Miller’s imagining of Big Sur are refracted through Perfume Genius’ ethereal vocals and sumptuous instrumentation, coalescing into a kaleidoscopic post-quarantine live experience. 
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Friday, May 22, 2020
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Perfume Genius assembles atmospheres, auras on ‘Set My Heart on Fire Immediately’

Though Hadreas occasionally finds himself wading into murky instrumental waters, his vocal performance is unwaveringly impressive.
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